tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post3037719435496969486..comments2015-03-31T02:25:32.922-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 626: Calculus Puns A-BoundCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-26904969657530549522010-09-07T19:54:38.956-07:002010-09-07T19:54:38.956-07:00it is the greatest thing. lmgtfy, that is. not goo...it is the greatest thing. lmgtfy, that is. not google.<br /><br />glad to introduce it to you.Carlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-58227431915293222042010-09-06T17:00:31.249-07:002010-09-06T17:00:31.249-07:00Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful new...Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful new website on the Internet. I will now use it as much as possible.<br /><br /><br /><br />Lmgtfy that is. Not Google.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-37198565832150196952010-09-02T16:55:26.001-07:002010-09-02T16:55:26.001-07:00here<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2vel8km" rel="nofollow">here</a>Carlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-67838252194305222892010-08-22T17:04:47.974-07:002010-08-22T17:04:47.974-07:00On a curve? I seriously didn&#39;t get that. Exp...On a curve? I seriously didn&#39;t get that. Explain or die.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-17571090271797836612010-04-22T19:00:21.947-07:002010-04-22T19:00:21.947-07:00i know a lot of people who like xkcd. this site w...i know a lot of people who like xkcd. this site was my first introduction to those who dont. and from what i&#39;ve read the only reason this dislike became public bashing was because the comic was popular enough to permeate a lot of aspects of a lot of humorless peoples&#39; lives. i dont see why this blog bashes randall personally, i assume he makes it for fun, he has no obligation to anyone so if it sucks no one lost anything, so i dont see the point. the guest writers and admins are welcome to their opinions, of course but i honestly enjoy a fair percentage of the comics. then again i go to a school where xkcd references are more common than mlia references.Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-84351839539337343922010-01-06T11:48:39.545-08:002010-01-06T11:48:39.545-08:00Dear Anon,
I would like to inform you that your c...Dear Anon,<br /><br />I would like to inform you that your comment is garbage and that xkcdsucks is brilliant. It&#39;s pretty pathetic how desperately you grope for reasons to hate on the blog, for example, blaming me for something a guest writer published. Oh silly anon. Can you not read?. I understand that you have something against my guest writer who has something against cheesy puns, but claiming that shitty art is ok because it&#39;s &quot;supposed&quot; to look like that? Please. That&#39;s a lame excuse. His art, like all art, is trying to convey information, and more often than not, it fails. Trying to make something bad and succeeding is no better than trying to make something good and failing. The subtle bigotry of low expectation, etc.<br /><br />In conclusion, you, good sir, are a pretentious cunt.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />CarlCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-26754055621962621692010-01-05T20:54:13.464-08:002010-01-05T20:54:13.464-08:00Dear Carl,
I would like to inform you that this w...Dear Carl,<br /><br />I would like to inform you that this website is garbage and that xkcd is brilliant. It&#39;s pretty pathetic how desperately you grope for reasons to hate on the comic. I understand that you have something against cheesy puns, but criticizing the artwork? Honestly? It&#39;s xkcd, for god&#39;s sake. It&#39;s SUPPOSED to look like that.<br /><br />In conclusion, you, good sir, are a pretentious cunt.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />AnonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-50060609073028194732009-11-13T11:36:03.971-08:002009-11-13T11:36:03.971-08:00man you are a prick. you&#39;re taking a comic int...man you are a prick. you&#39;re taking a comic into consideration and giving it just as much criticism as you would a prolific writer. its like you expected shakespeare out of randall and he failed to deliver. its a god damn comic. its funny, its not serious. its not attempting to deliver something it isnt. fuck off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-49437277814392651672009-10-29T04:20:08.107-07:002009-10-29T04:20:08.107-07:00Here is an example of how to do the CSI:Miami meme...Here is an example of how to do the CSI:Miami meme better while also being much more authentically nerdy:<br /><br />http://alt.org/nethack/dudley/?370ambivaliciousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-91508485127329797112009-08-26T16:03:22.600-07:002009-08-26T16:03:22.600-07:00Irregular Webcomic #2404 shows how to do Newton pu...Irregular Webcomic #2404 shows how to do Newton puns right:<br /><br />http://irregularwebcomic.net/2404.html<br /><br />(Interesting coincidence, as David Morgan-Mar makes his comics a month in advance.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-57011567139760009072009-08-24T06:48:06.433-07:002009-08-24T06:48:06.433-07:00And everyone else here is ignorant for thinking th...And everyone else here is ignorant for thinking that hertz (the unit) has a capital initial. Units don&#39;t. Even units derived from names don&#39;t. The symbols for the units do, though, so the symbol for hertz is Hz.<br /><br />Like Fernie, I like to use proper diacritics on words derived from foreign languages. Unlike Fernie, I have an Irish keyboard which doesn&#39;t make this easy for me, so I sometimes don&#39;t bother. And again unlike Fernie, I&#39;m a native English speaker (and I hang around on atheist blogs) and I knew that <i>meme</i> was not derived from the French <i>même</i>. (The two words don&#39;t even sound alike: <i>même</i> has a short <i>eh</i> sound. Nor is their meaning similar. Yes, I studied French in school.)<br /><br />I think my taste must be different to everyone else&#39;s. So far there&#39;s been only one xkcd comic I actually hated, and everyone here was saying it wasn&#39;t too bad. One of the better ones, you said.<br /><br />*shrug*<br /><br />TRiG.TRiGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12252536592916793907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-78245376279882625082009-08-24T04:54:08.154-07:002009-08-24T04:54:08.154-07:00This comment thread is a lot funnier than the comi...This comment thread is a lot funnier than the comic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-10649556586296188702009-08-24T04:22:38.399-07:002009-08-24T04:22:38.399-07:00Zing!
Frogfighter: Well, it&#39;s not really hate...Zing!<br /><br />Frogfighter: Well, it&#39;s not really hate. I mean, he spelled it with an accent, somebody remarked that it&#39;s kinda pretentious, then he disagreed, and after that we&#39;re all basically arguing for the sake of arguing. And being pedantic, stubborn... Umm, asses.<br /><br />Fernie, nobody ever implied you were pretentious specifically here. I mean, if you say même on xkcdsucks, you probably say même everywhere else. So... Yeah. It&#39;s not about you being pretentious specifically to us.<br /><br />I think there&#39;s basically three reasons you would put accents on words in English: <br /><br />(1) The word is not yet borrowed, you are borrowing it from a foreign language (not the case here) <br />(2) You speak the originating language (i.e. you are French and saying même) and are simply used to putting on the accents<br />(3) You are a pretentious douchebag who knows &quot;how the word is really spelled&quot; and won&#39;t let anyone forget it. As in between you and I.<br /><br />Since it&#39;s more common (if you know enough English to talk about memes you probably have gotten the hang of its orthography by then) people tend to assume 3.<br /><br />As for hating English, well, I dunno. It makes writing poems more fun, I think. Anyway, how&#39;d that one go... &quot;The problem with English purists is that English is as pure as a tavern wench. It doesn&#39;t simply borrow words from other languages, it chases them down dark alleys, knifes them and loots the corpses.&quot;Ar-Pharazônhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03486274284758665991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-27805134522554240112009-08-24T01:24:41.345-07:002009-08-24T01:24:41.345-07:00You need to put subjects in your sentences, Ann.You need to put subjects in your sentences, Ann.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-2227164665785338902009-08-24T01:07:49.594-07:002009-08-24T01:07:49.594-07:00Can&#39;t start a sentence with &quot;and&quot;, R...Can&#39;t start a sentence with &quot;and&quot;, Rob.Ann Apolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08566528013026340201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-18417398961926839582009-08-24T00:31:13.084-07:002009-08-24T00:31:13.084-07:00And because he is an ignorant prescriptivist douch...And because he is an ignorant prescriptivist douche.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-81501035550426706772009-08-23T23:41:45.246-07:002009-08-23T23:41:45.246-07:00It&#39;s not just using accents, it&#39;s using th...It&#39;s not just using accents, it&#39;s using them when they&#39;re not called for solely because he thinks it makes his words look more foreign.Femalethoth (Mal from xkcdsucks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-81840529268709431992009-08-23T23:24:31.914-07:002009-08-23T23:24:31.914-07:00Wow, I really don&#39;t get this round of Fernie-h...Wow, I really don&#39;t get this round of Fernie-hating.<br />Yeah, so the guy puts on accents. Big deal! Apparently, in Portugese it&#39;s important to have the right accents, so he got in the habit of putting in the accents, even going so far as to *GASP* memorize the alt-codes (like THAT&#39;S difficult), and now he keeps them in even in English cognates. The problem is... ?<br />I mean, I don&#39;t exactly recall him saying that anybody ELSE needs to memorize the alt-codes and use the accents religiously in order to be a decent human being. If he did, then you guys are all correct and he&#39;s being an ass. Otherwise? His habits are entirely sensible and you guys are all asses.Frogwarriornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-43491257020126455812009-08-23T22:44:09.767-07:002009-08-23T22:44:09.767-07:00Does that go for typos?Does that go for typos?Jiggle Jackhttp://www.polkout.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-34451064155236240402009-08-23T22:01:32.781-07:002009-08-23T22:01:32.781-07:00@Rob -- If you&#39;re too lazy to properly type yo...@Rob -- If you&#39;re too lazy to properly type your words... There&#39;s really no hleping you.Femalethoth (Mal from xkcdsucks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-77617455340537206132009-08-23T21:43:33.172-07:002009-08-23T21:43:33.172-07:00Alt text becomes exponentially more creepy if you ...Alt text becomes exponentially more creepy if you imagine it&#39;s Randall Munroe saying it.Ramseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00869795862020505804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-4666882719512229842009-08-23T21:43:03.649-07:002009-08-23T21:43:03.649-07:00i dont think the latest comic is funny, by any mea...i dont think the latest comic is funny, by any means, but it IS something i do a lot, so i can relate to it.<br /><br /><br />oh dear i just had a GOOMH moment. is there a way to commit ritual suicide on the internet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9482611354204823812009-08-23T21:42:12.988-07:002009-08-23T21:42:12.988-07:00Seriously, stop being fucking prescriptivists.Seriously, stop being fucking prescriptivists.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-78829356491392603472009-08-23T21:41:56.990-07:002009-08-23T21:41:56.990-07:00I think it&#39;s more because, unless you happen t...I think it&#39;s more because, unless you happen to have the keystrokes memorized to add an accent to a letter, it&#39;s going to take you a minute or two to type a single letter when all you want to say is &#39;Yeah, the facade collapsed on a building downtown&#39; when your friend asks if you knew anything about the emergency vehicles.Robhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15828938843801425383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-35397063731977127312009-08-23T21:36:39.067-07:002009-08-23T21:36:39.067-07:00@Martze -- That&#39;s because Americans are intell...@Martze -- That&#39;s because Americans are intellectually lazy anti-intellectuals who wallow in their inferior bastardized version of English--a language <i>already</i> characterized by its heterogeneous heritage and absurditry.Femalethoth (Mal from xkcdsucks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/04416392917805723793noreply@blogger.com